Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
God, I was beginning to hate this hope inside me. Sometimes, hope kept you from seeing the truth. Sometimes hope made you keep holding on to something that you should let go of.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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I'm very involved with all the executives at Televisa.
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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I think Kareena Kapoor is gorgeous. She is effortless. I have never seen her go overboard with her make-up or the way she dresses. Even off-screen or when travelling, she looks gorgeous.
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A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.
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I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.
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What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
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«And the European one?»
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German law takes precedence over sharia. The full face veil should be banned, wherever legally possible.
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I'd love to write a country album with Adele.
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I had this thing about not giving too much of myself away, so I thought, if I sang lyrics, that's giving too much away. You know, I really didn't want to give myself away.
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I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
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I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.
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When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.
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I certainly hope to be a great publisher, and if people want to love me, too, that's even better.
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God, I was beginning to hate this hope inside me. Sometimes, hope kept you from seeing the truth. Sometimes hope made you keep holding on to something that you should let go of.
